Africa left most of us reveling in the comforts and things that make life easy when we arrived back in America. They absolute nothing or lack of what we called comforts there takes you back to a certain simplicity. You learn to just get by without many things.

One of these being unlimited amounts of power, every little bit we got was like gold. You needed to conserve every ounce of power for the classes you had and any project involving your laptop. Which most of these we learned to live without even writing 6 page papers all on loose leaf so you could turn it in. Now, that we’re back I doubt you don’t take a second thought about just plugging in your computer or phone. This is definitely a convenience-thing

The consumption of food we eat in America is absolutely ridiculous along with how much of it turns into trash anyway because we also throw away so much of it. The intake of watching how many people were just eating so much food at the airport was absolutely mind-blowing. All that food could’ve fed all those kids on the rocks we see everyday for months on end. Where does all that uneaten food go anyway? It doesn’t go to good use or get used; it just gets thrown in the trash. When there could be people for sure eating most of that food. A lot of it is still good such as, the bread they throw away at the grocery stores because it’s a day old in the bakery. There is nothing wrong with that bread yet it gets thrown away.

When we’re struggling through the airports with all our bags and boats and gear no one stops to help you when everything falls off your cart or in some airports you don’t even get a cart to make you life easier. Everyone just watches you struggle tremendously trying to maneuver your stuff around. I love when people will look right at you and not even offer you a helping hand. If you were in Africa or any place other than America someone would stop and go out of their way to assist you.

The lack of stuff everyone in Africa needs to be happy is absolutely amazing the have never seen an iPod nor heard of one yet they will leave the rest of their lives content and perfectly fine. They need very little to actually be happy. Everything there is a new experience or adventure for them. They appreciate the absolutely littlest things and take it all wonderfully and one day at a time. Everything is simple and right to the point it has its purpose and that’s that.  There is no need for extravagance. There is absolutely not enough money for that. Everything needs to do its purpose and cost as little as possible to get it done yet work and last for a long time.

The order maintained in our road systems is absolutely something to behold. There are rules that you need to follow and you need to keep a certain speed and control. There is no room for chaos; everyone would crash in our society the fact of “just going with it” is not existent. A tree in the road would block it for hours here. While there a group of people would work together and just move it or cut it up and again just move it. The mass of everyone moving down the streets in Uganda was mind-blowing how everyone gets to where they need to go without crashing is crazy.

Its also a comfort to see our society is in order like we’re not in a strife with our government. It’s also nice to know things aren’t rigged like they are there. Its lovely that people don’t just randomly start breaking out into riots and start getting tear gassed to keep it under control. The safety here or what you feel is more safety here is great. Guys aren’t just walking around with a big gun strapped to their back and you better hope the right guy is carrying it there. Here there in the US are forms and codes you have to maintain to keep it.

We do have our benefits and much more order to our society because we already went through many things to get to that order. While they are still trying to figure out how get up in the world and develop a modern society. But, do they really need to? The simplicity of everything there was absolutely phenomenal and those were some of the happiest people I’ve ever seen.